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Hi Guys,

I’ve been struggling with this mod_rewrite thing for a while now, so it was time I threw it into the (awesome) group.

I have a site where some of the sections (pages) are accessed through subdomains (for example: blog.domain.com, news.domain.com, etc..) and also just the normal domain (domain.com). All the subdomains need to point to a template_group and I’ve almost got it working.

This is the .htaccess I’ve got so far:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(blog|news).domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !(blog|news)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ %1/$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

Like I said… it almost works, except for this one little problem. When I access an url like blog.domain.com/entry/ee-is-awesome it works as expected and loads the blog/entry template. But when I go to blog.domain.com it just shows me the same template as domain.com instead of loading blog/index. Even if I add some jibberish at the end (blog.domain.com/sdffds) it works and I get the blog/index template…

Who here has enough mod_rewrite chops to help me out on this one, because I’m stumped.

Regards,
Wouter

i use used to use two htaccess files, one in the subdir
http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/163582/#800306

UPDATE
i tested this, and your idea seems to save me a ton of work instead of using subdirs.
(if you point the subdomain to the same dir, assets stay the same too e.g. /images etc.)

#empty request ^$ to subdomain e.g. test.example.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(blog|test).example.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ index.php?/%1/ [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(jpe?g|gif|png|bmp|css|html?|pdf)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

Hi Gerhard,

Your example didn’t work for me, but… it did solve it for me 😊 The aha-moment for me was when I saw this part:

RewriteRule ^$ index.php?/%1/ [L]

It occured to me that my RewriteRule didn’t pass when it had no first segment. So when I added that, I got it to work with no first segment, but then it didn’t work when I added /archive or /search to the URL.

So I added my rules back in and got it to work perfectly. This is the final (bloated) .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(blog|news).domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ %1/ [L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(blog|news).domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !(blog|news)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ %1/$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

Just a little heads-up: when using this method, you have to keep in mind that your first segment is actually your second and your subdomain becomes your first segment.

// <a href="http://blog.domain.com/entry/test-entry-1">http://blog.domain.com/entry/test-entry-1</a>
{segment_1} => blog
{segment_2} => entry
{segment_3} => test-entry-1

Thanks for the help!

Regards,
Wouter

Wouter - may I ask if all your permalinks and such properly show up as blog.domain.com/blog-post-name-here?  Or does it still come up as http://www.domain.com/blog/blog-post-name-here?

Cheers,
Carlos

Hi Carlos,

The links generated by EE are all a bit messed up and look like domain.com/blog/blog-post-name-here/

I worked around this by setting up global variables for all the subdomains I have and manually putting the URL’s together. It’s not ideal, but the client wanted it like this. If I knew it would be such a PITA I would’ve advised against it or done it a different way (MSM or something like that).

—Wouter

Ah got it… that’s too bad. Thanks for letting me know before I spent hours pulling my hair out about it! 😊